My husband has amalgams in all 4 quadrants of molars. We want to get them removed and replaced but are not sure if it's better to wait until we can get them all removed within a month's time so we can have him detox?
Has anyone had a good detox experience?
The second question is would it be better for me (no amalgams) to get pregnant prior to him removing anything because that could start him excreting more mercury for an unknown amount of time?
I should also clarify that there wasn't anything they could do to me that I couldn't fix. Not without hanging themselves. Which the surgeon nearly did, but he skipped town. I gave him a pass but I don't think the hospital did.
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That's fantastic! I do have a load of questions if you could answer any of them:
1. Did you do any pretox/detox?
2. Did you have a lot of amalgams?
3. Were there amalgams on both sides of your mouth?
4. Did you remove them all in one go?
5. Could you share roughly how much the removal cost for either just one of the amalgams or all of them? (All the dentists I've called make the excuse that they can't even ESTIMATE without seeing my husband 🙄—yeah right)
PS I did learn to get “SMART certified” only requires dentists to take some courses but unfortunately does NOT verify they implement all the precautions.
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Mine was an all-in-one place - extractions and 2 sets of dentures that I was never able to use, which is a much longer story but, didn't care. Don't know how much it cost, around 3 or 4k, I think, but my daughter paid for it. I just picked the cheapest place. I had a mouth full of "silver" fillings from when I was a kid. Once I came of age, I quit going to the dentist until I cracked a tooth and had them all out in my 50s.
I tried to have them all out a few years prior to that, at a regular dentist, but he was such a you-know-what and was ruthless in trying to talk me out of it and into a bunch of other dental work, so I just left.
I didn't really care about or pay any attention to anything but getting rid of them and he wouldn't do the extractions unless I bought the dentures. He was just a horrible human being but I didn't care. I didn't care about him or the dentures or anything. He was doing what I wanted done. That's all I cared about.
I'd been in that position before, with a surgeon, and just bit the bullet, ignored the whole malpractice aspect and left them both to karma. I got what I wanted, both times. Yeah, they both got their petty "revenge" on a patient they couldn't bully but I didn't care about it the way they wanted me to so, there was no satisfaction in it for them. The surgeon left town - as he'd really, truly screwed up but the dentist is just left living with himself, knowing what he'd done, so...not my problem.
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Wow! Thankful you're on the other side of things now—after “waking up” to western medicine it's hard for me not to see malpractice in everything they do but your experience seems even more than usual. Thank you for the pricing and experience details. It seems like many people get amalgams out in their 50's and 60's so maybe we don't need to rush, as much as I'd love the metal and MERCURY (dentists! Why do they do this?! ) out of my husband's mouth.
